Based on Intel's Centrino platform, the 661LMi is a business-oriented mobile PC, and a very respectable one at that. We weren't keen on its display, or its supposedly ergonomic curved keyboard, but we could few faults with its extensive feature set, performance and certainly not its price.

The Acer is based on a 1.4GHz Pentium M backed with a decent 512MB of 266MHz DDR SDRAM and a 40GB hard drive. A Centrino machine, it uses Intel's 855GM chipset, which, as we said, provides the graphics acceleration and grabs 64MB of the main memory bank as its video buffer. The 661LMi ships with an 802.11b Wi-Fi adaptor accessed through a hatch on the underside.

Acer TravelMate 661LMi
Rating 80%
Pros — Nice price
— Broad feature set
— Solidly-built
Cons — Curved, ergonomic keyboard
— Screen resolution too high
— No Bluetooth
Price £1199 inc. sales tax

Acer website here

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